Laburnum Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in Dodford with Grafton, Worcestershire

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Listing Text

SO 97 SW DODFORD WITH GRAFTON CP WOODLAND ROAD (east side)
Dodford

9/110 Laburnum Cottage
12.5.76

GV II

House. c1848 with late C20 alterations and additions. Brick on sandstone
base, slate roof with ridge end stacks. Rectangular three-bay plan. Single
storey. Main north front articulated as 1:3:1 bays; central part breaks
forward slightly and is gabled with C20 bargeboards on shaped brackets;
original 2-light casements in outer bays; central part has half-glazed door
flanked by original single-light casements. Quatrefoil opening in stone
rectangle in gable apex. C20 parallel range adjoins at rear. One of 40
similar Chartist houses in Dodford built mainly on four-acre plots by the
Chartist Land Company. As on other Chartist estates each small-holding was
intended to provide the occupant with an independent livelihood and the
opportunity to qualify for a county vote. (W Bond, From Hamlet to Parish,
1972).

Listing NGR: SO9290073338

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